Thank God It's Friday

FLAMING ACOUSTICS: AN EVENING OF CLASSICAL GUITAR

Date: December 9

Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Venue: Auditorium Nouvelle Vague, Alliance Française de Dhaka

'Flaming Acoustics' is the name of an instrumental ensemble directed by Iftekhar Anwar. Come December 9 at Alliance Française Auditorium Nouvelle Vague, the ensemble will perform eight different and exclusive renderings of Western classical music, which include pieces by venerable composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, et al. The performances will feature classical guitar, flute and violin. Each concert will last for an hour and the pieces will comprise solos, duets and trios. Pramit Kishore Choudhury will play the guitar, Md. Akash will be on the flute and Suchorit Shuvanon Rahman will play the violin.

Limited seats are available and the tickets will be Tk200 per person.

For more information please call 01741009497.

FILM SHOW: TRIBUTE TO JEANNE MOREAU (1928-2017)

Date: December 8, December 15 & December 29

Time: 6:00 PM

Venue: Auditorium Nouvelle Vague, Alliance Française

legend in French new wave cinema, a cultural icon, Jeanne Moreau was a symbol of an era.

Moreau made her stage debut at the age of 19 at the Avignon Festival. In 1962, 'New Wave' director François Truffaut cast her in 'Jules et Jim,'s which earned her international success.

She would go on to work with some of the finest filmmakers in cinema like Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Luis Buñuel, among others.

Her career spanned seven decades and nearly 150 film and TV roles, establishing her as the thinking man's femme fatale. As a matter of fact, Orson Welles once called Moreau 'the greatest actress in the world.'

To pay homage to this legendary French actress, Alliance Française will screen three of her films in its Auditorium Nouvelle Vague.

Theme: Back to the Roots. The beginning - or in some cases, the prequel - lays down the groundwork for the rest of the story. In reality, lives are made up of a hundred different stories, some interconnected, some stand-alone.

This year, you are invited to explore your beginnings through art, stories and music.